Yuko Nakagawa

Yuko Nakagawa (22 December 1958-) was a member of the Japanese House of Representatives from 17 December 2012 to 28 September 2017, succeeding Tomohiro Ishikawa and preceding Kaori Ishikawa. She was a member of the Jiminto party.

Biography
Yuko Nakagawa was born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan in 1958, and she married Jiminto politician and 2008-09 Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa. She graduated from the University of the Sacred Heart in 1981 and worked at Mitsubishi for a year before marrying Shoichi, moving to Hokkaido shortly afterward. After her husband's death, she decided to enter politics, and she took her husband's old seat in the House of Representatives in 2012. She opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but a photo of her kissing another politician led to a scandal that resulted in her predecessor Tomohiro Ishikawa's wife Kaori Ishikawa taking her seat in the 2017 election.